My Sister Adopted a Five-Year-Old Girl Who Looked Astonishingly Like Me. At First, Everyone Joked That She Must Be My Daughter. But Just Two Weeks After the Adoption, My Sister Came to My House in Tears and Said, “Sarah, I Found Out Who Emily’s Real Mother Is.”

“Yes, sweetheart.”

She smiled.

“Then why are your eyes exactly the same color as mine?”

I had no answer.

Over the following days, the little girl became surprisingly attached to me. Every time I visited, she would run straight into my arms.

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One evening, Mary even said,

“Sarah, sometimes it feels as though Emily has known you much longer than she’s known me.”

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For some reason, those words frightened me.

And two weeks later, my sister appeared at my front door.

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She had cried so much that her eyes were swollen.

“Sarah, please sit down. I’ve discovered something about Emily’s past.”

“What happened?”

With trembling hands, Mary opened her phone.

“At the adoption agency, they originally told us there was no information about her biological mother. But yesterday, a woman who used to work at the hospital where Emily was born called.”